Promotions Hub Lead at Unilever

Job Purpose: 

• Provide co-ordination of the team activities and management of the monthly/quarterly cadence within promo hub
• Support in building capability within the team (L1 & L2) to create recommendations of optimised promotional plans, input into forecasting cycle with End-to-End Management of promotions (accruals, forecasting, month end activities)
• Drive strategic initiatives within Customer Operations, CD, Finance to improve Promotional Spend
• Lead all audit activities and periodic control testing to ensure risk mitigation.

Principal activities of the job on which most of the time is spent: 

• Coordinate team activities and management of in month cadence of business cycle, support and get involved in with Sales analyst activities to support where required across accounts.
• Responsible for Promo approvals, ensuring SOA and SOP adherence.
• Support teams and build capabilities where required in creation of promotional plan (volume & TTS) by using data analytics from historical promotional performance and ROI to provide recommendations to the CD team.
• Support in managing all promohub reporting and comms to align to business cadence in forecast deadlines and accruals in month; including and establishing a reconciliation process for ensuring planned activities are ensuring all elements on contracts to ensure compliance with the accounting and Compliance regulation.
• Support in defining process and building capability within promohub to utilise all tools and financial information to identify risks and opportunities.
• Co-ordination and participation in promo planning activities to feed into the business plan aligned and CCD promo kits are clearly translated into effective promotional activities.
• Where required, engage with Business Leadership (CD, Finance) and other cross functional partners.

Scope / Sphere of Influence – Internal / external and nature of this interface: 

• Internal - Collaborate with CD / Finance/ /Global/ Audit /CG Develop and maintain good working relationships. Escalate inefficiencies & hold business partners accountable.
• External - Collaborate with CG Claims Team, Development and maintain good working relationships. Escalate inefficiencies & hold business partners accountable.

Leadership Competency requirements: 

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent organization and follow through skills.
• Results and process-oriented
• Trustworthy, strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Strong Influencing and negotiating skills.
• Adaptable and flexible (ability to multi-task)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and business partnering skills.
• Ability to manipulate and manage large amounts of data.
• Superior execution skills in a changing environment.
• Strong analytical & diagnostic skills
• Strong leadership skills

Skills, Knowledge & Experience requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Business essential, preferred postgraduate in Finance
• Knowledge of S&OP processes advantageous
• Financial and Budget acumen
• Excellent Analytical skills
• Technology and process improvement
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills
• 5 years FMCG experience in either CD Finance, Supply Chain
• Advanced user of MS Office applications essential Power BI, Data Lakes
• Intermediate to advanced experience in enterprise reporting platforms (Power BI)
• Solid experience in creating, editing database driven reporting with ability to modify existing templates.
• Experience with SAP/ ERP systems essential